Legal News

Joining a chorus of cities and states addressing concerns involving employers’ failure to properly calculate employees’ pay, or to pay them at all, allowing employees to work “off the clock,” or take unauthorized or illegal deductions, on August 8,...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On August 12, 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Assembly Bill A8421 / Senate Bill 6577 (“Law”), which, as we previously reported, contains sweeping changes to New York State’s Human Rights Law (“HRL”). Below is an updated chart of the effective...By: Epstein Becker & Green

On May 15, 2019, Vice Chancellor Slights of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a ruling addressing important issues related to private company deal litigation. Specifically, the decision addressed when a release of claims and covenant not to sue...By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

In a recent posting on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Nate Emeritz proposes several mechanisms under Delaware law for leveraging existing female board power to prevent the female board perspective from...By: Allen Matkins

Just as the Connecticut legislature was about to vote on the budget this spring, a small provision was dropped into the budget bill. The provision, Section 305 of Public Act 19-117, states that “any covenant not to compete is against public policy...By: Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has been increasingly energetic as 2019 progresses. Its latest initiative is the August 12 publication of new proposed rules that would change three important aspects of the NLRB union representation...By: Morgan Lewis

One of the primary responsibilities of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is conducting secret ballot elections in the workplace about the choice to be union-free or not. Over the years, however, the right to a secret ballot election has been...By: Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), employees have the right to determine whether union representation is in their best interests. The freedom of employees to make this critical choice in an atmosphere free of coercion or intimidation is...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On August 12, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to modify three parts of its election procedures. This rulemaking would amend the Board’s blocking charge policy, voluntary recognition bar rule...By: White and Williams LLP

Providing an up-to-date report card on boardroom gender diversity in California’s largest publicly traded companies, Orrick recently released a study on the state of compliance with a new law mandating at least one female director by the end of this...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP